PHONETICS & WORD STRESS

NGUYEN QUANG HUY

I. Vowels
[i:] leave, tea, niece [1] sit, lit, give, dinner [u:] too, full, cool, true [$] book, took, good, [3:] burn, girl, work, bird [6] above, water, camera [0:] short, talk, report [ ] hot, lock, sock, top [e] men, get, end, head [`] cat, cap, bad, sad [a:] part, laugh, dark [^] but, bus, touch, shut, luck

II. Dipthongs
[16] here, tear, beer, ear [e6] air, hair, tear, bear [01] toy, coin, boy, oil [$6] poor, tour, sure, mature [e1] say, cake, late, mail [a$] how, brow, house, down [a1] shine, like, time, shy [6$] cold, phone, boat, coke [a16] fire [a$6] hour, sour

III. consonants
[t~] actually, nature, statue [d2] education, schedule [8] think, wealthy, author [5] there, clothing, weather, this [~] shine, show, wash, shy [2] casual, measure, television [7] ring, singer, wrong, [j] yes, year, use, you

Unit 1
[i:] & [ ]
Common spelling patterns for [i:] 1. ee meet, feel, see, free 2. ea team, reach, mean, seat 3. ie & ei belief, piece, neither, receive 4. Final e me, we, she, he 5. e + consonant + e these, Chinese, Peter 6. Final y city, duty, country, ability 7. Ending with ique unique, boutique, critique

Unit 1
[i:] & [1]
Common spelling patterns for [1] 1. i (most common ) sit, give, this, dinner 2. ui build, quit, quick, guilty 3. y betweent 2 consonants system, gym, symbol, hymn Exceptions Been, women

Unit 1
More practice P.9 The Beatles 1.Briefly (briefs underpants or knickers) for a short time : I met him (only) briefly on Friday night. In few words : Let me tell you briefly what happened. 2.Eternity / 1t3:n6ti / ( UC & C ) for (an) eternity. A period of time that is very long or never ended. 3. Reach sth ( an agreement, conclusion, decision ) fail to To achieve a paticular aim 4.Appeal / 6pi:l / recall = remember To attract or interest sb 5.Grieve (for) sb/sth To feel very sad because sb has died.

Unit 1
More practice P.11 The Winter Olympics 1.Amidst ( amid) in the middle of or during sth, surrounded by sth 2.Make (a,the,some,no, much, a lot of ) difference To have an (no) effect on sb. 3. Infinite respect great/deep respect To hold sb in a great/deep respect = have a deep/great respect for sb

Unit 2 [e1] , [`] & [e]

Common spelling patterns for [e] 1.e get, end, general, next 2. ea heavy, head, read, measure Exceptions
Said, says, again, any, many, against Common spelling patterns for [e] 1.a hat, apple, man, answer

Unit 2 [e1] , [`] & [e]

Common spelling patterns for [e1] 1. a + consonant + e late, came, take, save 2. ai wait, rain, train, aim, pain 3. ay away, say, play, date 4. ey survey, obey, they 5. eigh weigh, eight, neighbor, freight 6. a city, duty, country, ability Less common : April, alien, angel

Unit 2
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

[e] & [e1]

Sell Pen Wet West Tell Ed Test Men Bet Met Fed Fell Sail Pain Wait Waste Tail Aid Taste Main Bait Mate Fade Fail

[e] & [`]

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Men Said End Then Guess Head Expensive Land Bat Mat Sad Add Man Sad And Than Gas Had Expansive Lend Bet Met Said Ed

Unit 2
More practice P.18

Babe Ruth
1. Of sbs day : during a particular period of them when sb lived Elvis Presley was the best singer of his day. 2. Name . To name sb/sth + N : to give a name to sb/sth They named him John . To name sb/sth : to say the name of sb/sth Can you name all the American states ? . To name sb/sth as sb/sth : to identify The missing man was named as James Kelly.

Unit 2
More practice P.26 1. Fabulous : extremely good, very great 2. Absolutely = completely, totally Elvis Presley was the best singer of his day. 3. Alcatraz / `lk6tr`z / : a small US island near San Francisco. 4. Plan : arrangement that you intend to do or achieve . To plan for sth / doing sth . To plan to do sth . To make ( development, business,) plan for sth 5. Grab : to have or take sth quickly because youre in a hurry

Word Stress Rule

Word type Where is the stress? Nouns Two syllables Verbs on the last syllable on the first syllable Examples center object flower release admit arrange

Nouns (N + N) (Adj. + N) Compound Adjectives (Adj. + P.P.) Verbs (prep. + verb)

on the first part

desktop pencil case bookshelf greenhouse

well-meant hard-headed old-fashioned understand overlook outperform

on the last part (the verb part)

Word type

Where is the stress?

Examples turn off buckle up hand out economic Geometric electrical Technician graduation cohesion Photography biology geometry

Phrasal Verbs

on the particle

-ic the syllable before the ending Word with added ending

-tion, -cian, -sion

-phy, -gy, -try, -cy, -fy, -al

the third from the last syllable

-meter

Parameter Thermometer barometer